Italy: Without a Government

Despite the drubbing his Socialist Party took
at the polls three weeks ago, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni saw no
alternative to limping back into the Center Left coalition with the
Christian Democrats for another five-year term. The party, however, had
other ideas for regaining working-class support and recovering its
voting losses. Overriding Nenni, Socialist delegates voted to stay out
of the Center Left alliance until the Christian Democrats gave a firm
commitment to carry out the leftist reforms in housing conditions,
higher education and social welfare that they had promisedbut not
deliveredin the previous government.